2017 School Age Summer Events
CSLP Theme: Build a Better World
Week 1: Building
Book to Share: Professor Whiskerton Presents Steampunk ABC by Lisa Falkenstern
Challenge: Toothpick towers with marshmallows or playdough
Week 2: Kindness
Book to Share: The Little Red Hen by Jerry Pinkney
Games:
Noodle Down (Teachers Pay Teachers, PE with Mr B, FREE)
Week 3: Fairy Tale Engineering
Book: The Great Fairy Tale Disaster by David Conway
Activities:
Make Jack a Parachute with the following supplies: Tissue paper, Plastic grocery bags, Coffee filters, Pipe cleaners, String/yarn, Dental floss, Rubber bands, Scissors
Make a Wolf Proof House for the Three Little Pigs with the following supplies: Craft sticks, Straws, Pencils, Duplos, Dominoes
Make a Bridge that Will Hold all three Billy Goats Gruff with the following supplies: Index cards, Masking Tape, Scissors, Rulers, Pennies
Week 4: Conserve & Protect
Books to Share: How to Help the Earth by the Lorax with Tish Rabe & Lesser Spotted Animals by Martin Brown
Activities:
Endangered Animal Bingo (designed myself)
Let’s Recycle Sorting Game (Lakeshore Learning)
Guest speaker from Soil & Water Conservation (MPL & APL only)
Week 5: Inventors & Inventions
Book to Share: Mistakes that Worked: The World’s Familiar Inventions and How They Came to Be by Charlotte Foltz Jones
Activities:
Invent the Best Paper Airplane (for all groups, community & day camp)
Make a Catapult (for smaller community groups)
Week 6: Outside Your Door
Book to Share: Poems from Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies
Games:
Take Home: Nature Scavenger Hunt